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Friday SNPpets

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment…

From Anil Dash & AAAS: a free, open-source, technology platform named ThinkUp that allows users to “ask questions on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites while ThinkUp collects and organizes the responses so they can be searched, archived, or even plotted on a map.” Sounds pretty cool. [Jennifer]

Quote of the week: This is a curious paper: if its conclusions had been correct, the whole foundation of modern genome biology would have come into question. Fortunately, its conclusions are wrong, and the key principle of comparative genomics is safe for now. –Michael Galperin And you should also look at his competing interests statement. ROFL!